Spring Newsletter 2015
A Fantastic start to the year!
Dear friends,
Uusinta Ensemble enjoyed a fantastic start to the year by opening its spring season with a
performance focusing on body action at the
open music
concert programme in Graz, Austria
on January 11. Invited by Ute Pinter the ensemble performed among others Michael
Maierhof’s
Plastikquartet 2
.
Soon after Graz, January 30, Uusinta made an appearance at the
Kaustinen Chamber Music
Week
with a concert focusing on the Finnish composer and professor at the Sibelius
Academy, Veli-Matti Puumala, and premiering his latest work N
achklang
.
The spring season was rounded off with a concert at the
Musica Nova Festival
in Helsinki
curated by Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen. Uusinta musicians had the pleasure to perform
with the pianist Nicolas Hodges under the direction of composer and this-time-conductor
Magnus Lindberg. With each composer present at the rehearsals and the concert, the
musicians enjoyed a rich exchange of thoughts. This concert did not lack of a world
premiere and this time Uusinta performed
Village Party
by Finnish composer Riikka Talvitie
composed for the oboe and a string quartet. The piece was written for oboist Anna-Kaisa
Pippuri (reviewed by the Financial Times as fearless) and included a tap dance solo by her.
Read the Financial Times review of the Musica Nova concert here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ad86d9ce-b113-11e4-831b-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=intl
#axzz3RcY2AGmE
Listen to the Musica Nova performance here:
http://areena.yle.fi/radio/2546254
(clip
available until 13.3.2015)
Past performances 2015
February 11th 2015 at 7 PM
MUSICA NOVA HELSINKI
House of Nobility, Helsinki
Jérôme Combier
Riikka Talvitie
Fred Lerdahl
Christian Winther Christensen
Pascal Dusapin
Uusinta Ensemble
Magnus Lindberg, conductor
Nicolas Hodges, piano
Lichen
Village Party (premiere)
Time after Time
String Quartet
Jetzt Genau!
Spring Newsletter 2015
January 30th 2015 at 6:30 PM
IN FOCUS: VELI-MATTI PUUMALA
Kaustinen Chamber Music Week
Veli-Matti Puumala
Alexander Scriabin
Veli-Matti Puumala
Tristan Murail
Veli-Matti Puumala
Pierre Boulez
Luciano Berio
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Veli-Matti Puumala
Gabriel Fauré
Helmut Lachenmann
Beat Furrer
Veli-Matti Puumala
Veli-Matti Puumala
Three movements from Symbo
Etude op.74/4
Three preludes from Hommages fugitifs
Cloches D’adieu, et un Sourire…
Fragment from Caprifoglio
Notations VI
Duet ‘Henri’ (arr. by Veli-Matti Puumala)
Klavierstück VII
Nachklang (premiere)
Piano trio in D minor
Toccatina
Aer
Envol
String Quartet
January 11th 2015 at 8 PM
KLANG-OBJEKT-KÖRPER-KLANG
open music
Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark 1, 8010 Graz
Simon Steen-Andersen
Ville Raasakka
Simon Løffler
Jagoda Szmytka
Michael Maierhof
Peter Ablinger
Malin Bång
Run Time Error (2009) video installation
a natural habitat 2 (2014) for amplified violin and viola (premiere)
b (2012) for 3 musicians, 3 neonlights, effectpedals and a loose jack cable
Körperwelten (2008) for amplified string instrument, audio files and video
Plastikquartett 2 (1997) for 4 players and plastic cups
Weiss/Weisslich 3 (1990) for ensemble
a r c h i n g (2013) for amplified cello, amplified tools and electronics
Uusinta Ensemble (Helsinki, Finland) combined instruments, objects, bodily performance and electronics
in its performative concert Klang-Objekt-Körper-Klang. In Simon Løffler’s work ‘b’ neonlights were played
with skin contact attached to electronics. Malin Bång has written a work for amplified cello and timber
tools such as saw and rasp. Sounds from within the human body are heard in Jagoda Szmytka’s work
Körperwelten.